treble clef

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noun Music.

a sign that locates the G above middle C, placed on the second line of the staff, counting up; G clef.

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Also called violin clef.

Origin of treble clef

First recorded in 1795–1805

Words nearby treble clef

treaty port, Trebbia, Trebizond, treble, treble chance, treble clef, treble staff, Treblinka, trebuchet, trecento, tre corde

How to use treble clef in a sentence

She looked through his list of potential song titles and came across one called “Treble Bass.”
‘All About That Bass’ Singer Meghan Trainor On Haters and Her Polarizing (and Unlikely) No. 1 Hit|Marlow Stern|October 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Rare is the roman à clef where you think you can identify every single real person in it.
Newsweek Takedown From Beyond the Grave: Michael Hastings’s Fiction Tells the Truth|Christopher Dickey|June 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At the time of his death, Fleming had pulled off a rare treble in English literature.
James Bond is Back But is He Any Good without Fleming?|Robert McCrum|October 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST
MVP By James Boice This is a roman à clef about Kobe Bryant.
My Favorite Books|Chuck Klosterman|October 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST

In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
Sir Peter Edlin, it seems, has been doing treble the amount of work for a two-third's salary.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
The simplest form was the Doublette sounding the 15th and 22nd (the double and treble octave) of the note struck.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Thou knittest togider the mene sowle of treble kinde, moeving alle thinges'; &c.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer

British Dictionary definitions for treble clef

treble clef

noun

music the clef that establishes G a fifth above middle C as being on the second line of the staffSymbol:

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